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45 CFR Sec. 46.204
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Title 45
SUBTITLE A
PART 46
Subpart B
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Sec. 46.204 Ethical Advisory Boards.
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(a) One or more Ethical Advisory Boards shall be established by
the Secretary. Members of these board(s) shall be so selected that
the board(s) will be competent to deal with medical, legal, social,
ethical, and related issues and may include, for example, research
scientists, physicians, psychologists, sociologists, educators,
lawyers, and ethicists, as well as representatives of the general
public. No board member may be a regular, full-time employee of
the Department of Health and Human Services.
(b) At the request of the Secretary, the Ethical Advisory Board
shall render advice consistent with the policies and requirements
of this part as to ethical issues, involving activities covered by
this subpart, raised by individual applications or proposals. In
addition, upon request by the Secretary, the Board shall render
advice as to classes of applications or proposals and general
policies, guidelines, and procedures.
(c) A Board may establish, with the approval of the Secretary,
classes of applications or proposals which: (1) Must be submitted
to the Board, or (2) need not be submitted to the Board. Where the
Board so establishes a class of applications or proposals which
must be submitted, no application or proposal within the class may
be funded by the Department or any component thereof until the
application or proposal has been reviewed by the Board and the
Board has rendered advice as to its acceptability from an ethical
standpoint.
(d) No application or proposal involving human in vitro
fertilization may be funded by the Department or any component
thereof until the application or proposal has been reviewed by the
Ethical Advisory Board and the Board has rendered advice as to its
acceptability from an ethical standpoint.
(40 FR 33528, Aug. 8, 1975, as amended at 43 FR 1759, Jan. 11,
1978)